How Erdogan’s faux-religious economic scruples matter to Nutella-lovers
by Rashmee
Posted on December 22, 2021
Turkey produces most of the world’s hazelnuts – 70 per cent, to be precise – …
Read MoreAnkara chairs and the business of ‘protocol machismo’
by Rashmee
Posted on April 8, 2021
/IT’S THE BUSINESS Heard the one about European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and …
Read MoreDemocracy doesn’t have to be Western-style, nor the development template
by Rashmee
Posted on September 19, 2020
Veteran foreign policywallah Kishore Mahbubani once wrote a piece for The New York Times titled …
Read MoreIs democracy really dying a slow, agonising death?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 25, 2019
It’s fashionable these days for commentators to lament the lingering death of democracy. It’s being …
Read MoreWhy politicians around the world are getting on the radical love train
by Rashmee
Posted on July 3, 2019 / The National
Populism of the most hateful sort has had a baleful presence in the headlines for …
Read MoreTurkey’s state of permanent crisis serves Erdogan
by Rashmee
Posted on January 20, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
Nearly three years after the failed coup that triggered a massive crackdown in Turkey, Turkish …
Read MoreMessage of Syria withdrawal: You can trust America to let you down
by Rashmee
Posted on December 21, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
Those who now express outrage, shock and complete surprise at Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw …
Read MoreKhashoggi affair gives Turkey’s elected sultan a PR boost – sort of
by Rashmee
Posted on October 25, 2018
The Jamal Khashoggi case has cast a mildly flattering light on Turkey’s acerbic, authoritarian president …
Read MoreTurkey’s Erdogan loves the Palestinians & some of them love him back
by Rashmee
Posted on September 25, 2018
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is quite the rock star in east Jerusalem. There, as …
Read MoreWhen did the West lose Turkey?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 7, 2018
Today is a good day to talk about Turkey, whose president meets his Iranian and …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK